For those of you who don't know her, this is Miss Lada Wake. And while, no, she's not going to be winning any armwrestling competitions anytime soon, she is one of the strongest people we've met. She's educated, independent, kind, has a voice like a choir of angels singing and she's beautiful. Then there's those ugly tattoos.

Now hear this: The next time we hear some shitheel, redneck, backwoods, inbred, misogynist blowhard spout some rhetoric about women with tattoos being ugly they will be handled with extreme prejudice. There will be no future warnings, violence will ensue. Cardinal Tattoo supports the rights of women to take ownership of their own bodies and adorn them as they deem appropriate. If you don't like it we don't care. If you want to get mouthy about it, we're done being polite.

For those of you who think beauty is in the eye of the beholder: What you look like, well, that's just the wrapper, the real stuff is what's inside. True beauty comes from within. So before you go judging those who look different from yourself try actually getting to know them first, 'may be surprised what you find.